Jesse A. Schroeder

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"Our religion is like the clearing in a forest after a great fire. It testifies to the happening of a great event and without the clearing we would not know of that event, but the clearing does not hold that event...Christianity testifies to the impossibility of grasping God because of the hyper-presence of God."

"The believer, far from once having a God-shaped hole in his or her being that is now filled, is one who has a God-shaped hole formed in the aftermath of God, a hole that compels them to seek after that which they already have...The void left by God is not unlike a type of black hole, full of something that cannot be seen and which draws our gaze into the unseen...Faith, in this rendering, can thus be described as a wound that heals." (Peter Rollins, How Not to Speak of God)

I'm still recovering from our recent trip to Guatemala. I feel a bigger, deeper, more wounding "God-shaped hole" in my life than I have ever felt before. I sense a call, a yearning, a desire. But I can't put words to it, and I don't know where it will lead.

Just away from "here." Not necessarily geographically, but spiritually and emotionally. I have not arrived. I have only just begun to wrestle with and follow this God who wreaks havoc upon my life.